Akhmetvaliev Rasikh Khasipovich

Akhmetvaliev Rasikh Khasipovich was born on December 24 (passport states December 27), 1956, in the village of Bikeevo, Chishminsky district, Bashkir ASSR. He is of Tatar nationality.
After school, he studied in Ufa at the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Ufa Music and Pedagogical College, in the same class as Yuri Shevchuk. Upon graduation, in 1976, he entered the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute.
In 1981, he graduated from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after I. Akmulla.
He was a member of the creative group "Inzer" (1989–1993), a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1992, and the creative association "Chingiskhan" since 1990.
In 1991, he worked in the USA.
From 2002 to 2008, he lived and worked in France (Honfleur, Paris), collaborating with the Bartoux Gallery and, from 2009, with the Visio dell'Arte Gallery, Paris. In France, he participated in Parisian exhibitions such as the "Salon d'Automne," Carrousel du Louvre, and had permanent exhibitions in galleries of Robert Bartoux: Paris, Honfleur, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Megève, Courchevel.
He works in the Cubist technique and describes his style as figurative art. The main theme of his paintings is female beauty, images of the artist's muse, and the masculine images of horsemen.
His works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M. V. Nesterov (Ufa), Novosibirsk Art Museum, Museum Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris, France), London Academy of Arts (England), MNK NCC "Kazan" (Kazan, RT), Gallery "Miras" (Ufa), the Academia Art Gallery (Ufa), GNI "Ural" of the Ministry of Culture and National Policy of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ufa), in the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, the Sh. Marjani Foundation for Supporting and Developing Scientific and Cultural Programs, and in many private collections in Russia and abroad.

“Nude” (2001), “Summer Wind” (1997), “Parfum de fleur” (2002), “Les cavaliers transparantes” (2008), and others.

Akhmetvaliev Rasikh Khasipovich has participated in republican and all-union art exhibitions since 1977.
1990 – "TAT-ART", Saint Petersburg.
1991 – "TAT-ART", Kazan.
1997 – "Miras Gallery Collection", Central House of Artists, Moscow.
1998 – Performance "GravitzaPPa-P", Ural Gallery, Ufa; Personal exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
1999 – Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg; "Euro-Art", Barcelona.
2000 – "Palette" Gallery, Saint Petersburg; Performance "Princesses", Nesterov Museum, Ufa; Personal exhibition, "Miras" Gallery, Moscow.
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 – International Art Fairs "Art-Manage", Moscow.
2001 – Personal exhibition, Ataturk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Personal exhibition, "Miras" Gallery, Ufa.
2003 – Personal exhibition, Saint-Catherine Gallery, Honfleur, France.
2004 – Personal exhibition "Salon d'Automne", Paris; "Carrousel du Louvre", Paris.
2005 – Personal exhibition, "Miras" Gallery, Ufa; October: "Salon d'Automne", Paris.
2017 – Personal exhibition “Premonition of Spring,” State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow.
2021 – Personal exhibition “Warm Wind,” Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2010).
Laureate of the First International Independent Cultural Studies Prize of the Independent Cultural Fund "Turan" (Kazan).
People's Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2023).

Works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov, the Ministry of Culture of Bashkortostan, the National Art Museum in Kazan.

1990: Exhibition of the 'Chingiskhan' artists group, Palace named after I.I. Gaza, Saint Petersburg;
1991: 'Tatart-91', Museum of Ethnography, Marble Hall, Saint Petersburg;
1992: Exhibition of Bashkortostan artists, Salzburg, Austria;
1994: 'Moon Dreams', 'Miras' Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow;
1995: Exhibition of the 'Chingiskhan' group, Union of Artists of Bashkortostan, Ufa;
1996: 'Return of Chingiskhan', Cultural Foundation 'Turan', Cultural Center, Kazan.

"Seasons", Chronicle of Russian Artistic Life, Moscow, 1995, p.118, 262;
"East and West in the Pictorial Context of the Urals", "Slovo", Ufa, 1994, p.7;
Catalogue of the international art fair "ART MANEZH", 1996;
Catalogue of the international art fair "ART MANEZH", 1997;
Raliya Musina "The Horseman Leaving for the Sky", newspaper "Culture", No.14, April 16-22, 1998;
Catalogue of the international art fair "ART MANEZH", 1998;
Catalogue of the international art fair "ART MANEZH. Eurasian zone", 1999;
Catalogue "Euro Art", Barcelona, Spain, 1999.